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...ante) there had bobbed up many a contributor who wanted to know more about what U. S. composers were accomplishing. To that end Werner Janssen was signed up to serve with such established European conductors as Arturo Toscanini, Bruno Walter, Otto Klemperer. Rochester was unwilling to commit itself on Dixie Fugue, a blaring, dissonant finale to a Louisiana Suite played heretofore only in Europe. But when the horns and kettle drums were still, Conductor Hanson held up the concert until Werner Janssen came down the aisle for a bow, his long head bobbing in front of him, his right...
Less obviously acted than most mystery movies, "Murder in Trinidad" manages to baffle until nearly the end. To discover a ring of diamond, smugglers is the task of Detective Nigel Bruce. Munching peanuts, looking dumb, he succeeds, after his antagonists have been able to commit only two murders, in outwitting them. Intermittently, caught in the whirlpool of tropical action, Miss Heather Angel and a recent British import named Douglas Walton add standard Hollywood romance to the picture. A motorboat chase and an expedition through a quicksand swamp form the principal excitements of the film, but it is the acting...
Died. Thomas A. Holt, 38, University of Michigan "human rabbit"; by his own hand (hanging) after murdering his wife; near Imlay City, Mich. Nine years ago "Human Rabbit" Holt offered to commit suicide, sell his body to the University of Michigan for experimentation. Instead he was made janitor, later consented to live in a glass cage, undergo feeding experiments conducted by Michigan's Dr. Louis Harry Newburgh...
...Bridgeport, Conn., Mrs. Charlotte M. Shanley was granted a divorce when she testified that her husband spent a half hour begging her to commit suicide, offered to turn...
...which she performs as a prostitute with more principles than profits. In Wharf Angel Toy (Dorothy Dell) is a San Francisco bad girl, rehabilitated by her pure love for Como (Preston Foster). He is a soap box socialist hounded by the police for a murder he did not commit. Turk (Victor McLaglen), also in love with Toy, helps Como escape. This leads to two climactic moments which, like the heroine, appear to have been dredged up from the past: the one in which Como and Turk, after a trip to China and back spent in exhaustive conversation about their romances...